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Commercial vehicle remarketing specialist Manheim has launched four new online commercial vehicle sales channels at this years CV Show.
In addition to unveiling its brand new mobile ‘pop up’ auction unit, a service that mobilises physical and online buyers to the vendor’s de-fleet location, Manheim will be conducting three exclusively online auction events during the show. These auctions will be run through Simulcast, the company’s multiple award winning online platform.
These timed auction events will permit Manheim’s buyers to log on and bid in a silent auction environment. Run simultaneously, they will ring-fence vans and trucks situated across Manheim’s UK auction network and, for the first time ever, will feature an exclusive auction for Hitachi Capital Commercial Vehicles.
Hitachi Capital is working in partnership with Manheim, entering a select number of rare and specialist commercial vehicles. Manheim is remotely inspecting and imaging these assets, eliminating the need to move them to an auction location.
The three online bidding events will run 24 hours over a seven day period, and every sold vehicle will be delivered directly to the buyer for a fixed fee, regardless of location in the UK.
James Davis, head of commercial vehicles at Manheim, said: “I am really excited to see the launch of these four online commercial vehicles sales channels. They bring a totally new dynamic to our auction world. We now have the flexibility to position commercial vehicles in multiple online sales channels outside physical auction events.”
Davis continues: “Uniquely, with Manheim’s global auction footprint, an export buyer’s availability often falls outside a UK physical auction window. By holding this round-the-clock event for a week, these buyers now have a total of 168 hours in which to battle for their lots. This compares to three or four hours for a typical UK physical auction. Against a backdrop of multiple time zones, we suddenly open up UK stock to a whole new worldwide buyer base.
The three auction events will open for bids from 9am on Monday 13th April and close at 9am on Monday 20th April.
For more information and to see the vehicles entered, visit Manheim at the CV Show in Hall 4, at stand number 4J10.
